Word: bachelor
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University of Chicago will award a bachelor's degree after two years of college. So announced Chicago's bold young President Robert Maynard Hutchins last week. It was one of the most revolutionary moves in U.S. collegiate history, for the B.A. has stood for a four-year college education ever since the first class graduated from Harvard...
President Hutchins urged junior colleges to give a bachelor's degree to their graduates, announced that other universities had indicated they would follow Chicago's example. Chicago's program, he observed, will resemble that of British public schools like Rugby, which weeds out mediocre students, sends only 8% of its graduates on to Oxford and Cambridge...
Said Hutchins: "General education can easily be completed by the end of the sophomore year. . . . But the junior and senior years ... are crowded with mediocre students who go on to the bachelor's degree because that is the only recognizable reward that college offers. ..." Under Chicago's new plan "students who have no business continuing beyond sophomore year can leave with self-respect...
...present cards also include a question as to the probable time at which students will complete their work for the Bachelor's degree. This will supply the Office with important information about the extent to which undergraduates expect to enter accelerated programs...
These certificates are specially designed for students who take advantage of a recent ruling permitting them to enter graduate schools of the University without completing four years of work and without their Bachelor's degree...